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2. Why it's so hard to quit smoking — and how to boost ... - AOL

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   Quitting smoking completely can add as much as a decade to your life, along with the positive environmental and public health impact it has by eliminating second- and third-hand smoke, Rezk-Hanna ...

3. More addictive and harder to quit: Health groups want Black ...

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   Nelson said she also tried to quit smoking on her own with her husband, who also is a former smoker. The first time she tried to quit was about 20 years ago when both she and her husband went cold ...

4. Vaping could be key to help people quit smoking, study says - AOL

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   Between 2013 and 2016, the number of people who quit smoking was virtually identical among both e-cigarette users and traditional smokers: 15.5% of e-cigarette users quit and 15.6% of smokers quit ...

5. MPOWER tobacco control - Wikipedia

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   Offer help to quit tobacco use; Warn about the dangers of tobacco; Enforce bans on tobacco advertising, promotion and sponsorship; Raise taxes on tobacco; Since its launch in New York City by WHO on 7 February 2008, MPOWER has become the internationally-applicable and now widely recognized summary of the essential elements of tobacco control ...

6. Smoking cessation - Wikipedia

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   Smoking cessation, usually called quitting smoking or stopping smoking, is the process of discontinuing tobacco smoking. [1] Tobacco smoke contains nicotine, which is addictive and can cause dependence. [2] [3] As a result, nicotine withdrawal often makes the process of quitting difficult.

7. Health campaign - Wikipedia

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   An organization may create a campaign which asks for participants to change their behavior in some way. Examples of such projects are smoking cessation campaigns which ask people to quit smoking, HIV prevention campaigns which ask people to do things such as use condoms to reduce HIV infection risk, or exercise campaigns which encourage people to engage in physical activity for health.

8. Nicotine replacement therapy - Wikipedia

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   An Action on Smoking and Health (UK) (ASH) report claims that the average cost per life-year gained for every smoker successfully treated by these services is less than £1,000 (below the NICE guidelines of £20,000 per QALY (quality-adjusted life year). However, the investment in NHS stop smoking services is relatively low.

9. Tobacco control - Wikipedia

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   The first attempts to respond to the health consequences to tobacco use followed soon after the introduction of tobacco to Europe. Pope Urban VII's thirteen-day papal reign included the world's first known tobacco use restrictions in 1590 when he threatened to excommunicate anyone who "took tobacco in the porchway of or inside a church, whether it be by chewing it, smoking it with a pipe or ...